Wrong. It says "the Judicial Council shall nominate by lot twenty-four retired judges willing to serve as Special Masters." "By lot" means chosen in an out-of-the-hat, bingo-ball manner.
You don't mention that they cannot select members of their own party.
True, but that only makes the measure better.
Therefore, the only GOP candidate who ever has a chance of being in the pool or selected as a "Special Master" will have to be chosen by Nunez or Perata (or their successors).
So what's the difference? 6 will be chosen by Democrats and 6 by Republicans.
What you never say is why you prefer the current approach. Obviously you'd rather have 65% of the state legislature in Democratic hands, and meanwhile find fault with anything and everything proposed by Tom, Arnold and Ted to start fixing the problem (even if it's not perfect), than actually put your own preferred solution on the table. Until you do that, you're no better than Fabian Nunez.
And they are using "by lot" as a means of choosing from WHAT pool? Like I said, the criteria is not mentioned. Statistically speaking, this is not "random" selection. Better? Maybe if you are one of those who would like to toss out the Republican platform and make the party more "moderate". IMO, this measure will "move the party left", just as the Governor has said he wants to do.
What you never say is why you prefer the current approach.
I have posted my preferred approach down on at least 10 occasions, which you have continued to ignore. I won't bother again.
Obviously you'd rather have 65% of the state legislature in Democratic hands, and meanwhile find fault with anything and everything proposed by Tom, Arnold and Ted to start fixing the problem (even if it's not perfect), than actually put your own preferred solution on the table.
That is false. I want nothing of the kind. See above.
Until you do that, you're no better than Fabian Nunez.
Why do you continuously turn your arguments into a personal attack on me? The tactics seem to be to attack and deride the skeptical person instead of selling the measure on its merits. People attacked Doolittle without even discussing WHY he opposes it. Why is that? Should we all just line up and salute when your chosen politician backs a measure? Sorry. No can do.
Personally, I suspect this will result in more Democrats in the House, and more mushy-middle RINOs overall. Those are the same mushy-middle "moderates" who will most likely allow higher taxes in California.